The AP reports that NBC's upcoming, all-CGI Father of the Pride (based on the famous Siegfried & Roy white tigers) is suffering from "bad buzz" started at the recent upfront meetings with advertisers. At least part of the reason seems to be the creepy video that NBC Universal Television head/executive shrink-o-tron test subject Jeff Zucker presented at the meetings, which featured (in the words of a Defamer spy), a "surgically reconstructed" Roy Horn with the "angles on his face...all wrong," obviously not fully recovered from his tiger-mauling. Maybe Jeff should hold back the Maria Shriver interview with Franken-Roy that he was saving for the premiere until the wrap party.

• Missteps spawn bad buzz for NBC's 'Pride' [AP via CNN.com]
• The Jeff Zucker Upfront Video: From Naked Mini-Exec To Mauled Freak [Defamer]
• Maria Shriver Interviews Roy Horn, Avoids Near-Fatal Mauling By Siegfried [Defamer]

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